TV Shows from the 2000 and 2010s - Discuss your favorite show from the 2000s and 2010s

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

Battlestar Galactica. Never been a big fan of TV series in general, but that one was really good.

I used to think Battlestar Galactica was good when I was young and dumb. Then I tried re-watching it after watching the original 70s series and couldn't even get past the first season. I can legitimately understand why fans of the original hated it so much now.

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

Best scene in SG1 is somewhere in season 5 where Amanda Tapping is seen driving a silver 1970s Volvo P1800 coupe. The producers back then knew how to write a classy lady with good automotive taste.

Amanda Tapping was such a good actress, and Carter was the best written "strong" female character. Better than any other female character in the series (except, maybe, Teyla)

 

[Back me up!]

it's why it never worked for me, same as psych.

something like leverage or burn notice was always more interesting to me.

there were also all those 1-2 season "one hit wonders" I kinda miss, at least then they tried (and if it was on fox you could pretty much assume it was gonna get killed off anyway).

EDIT:
speaking of...

Better of Ted was better then it had any right to be. I still remember the episode where the higher ups replaced everything in the build with motion sensors......that couldn't detect black people. So they hired a bunch of white people to follow the black employee's around.

The line "I love my white guy" still slays me.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I used to think Battlestar Galactica was good when I was young and dumb. Then I tried re-watching it after watching the original 70s series and couldn't even get past the first season. I can legitimately understand why fans of the original hated it so much now.

Everyone is a jerk in the remake. Which is why I say it's the best Gen X show ever. It's Exodus viewed in a completely cynical way and everyone has to be on edge all the time.

 

[Ghostse]

I can legitimately understand why fans of the original hated it so much now.

Having watched some of the OG 70s, and having liked the remake, even while enjoying it I got why the fans of the original hated it. I thought BSG was a good enough show they didn't need to pretend to be a gritty reimagining of a upbeat scifi exploration anthology.
Which is what pisses me off about a lot of reboots - if you aren't going to stay true to the original work, just do your own damn thing.

I used to work with a guy who (pre-reboot airing) almost got into a fist fight with Richard Hatch (Apollo from the original series)

Spoiler

My coworker was at a convention with his friends, saw Richard Hatch had a table with $20 autographs. as he was walking by, "$20? Maybe for Starbuck" and continued moving. He hears some activity behind him, but doesn't think anything of it, because its a con and loud.
They bump into another friend and he asks "What the fuck did you say to Richard Hatch?"
"Nothing, why?"
"Dude nearly jumped the table to go after you, the security guy barely caught him to hold him back"

Apparently Hatch and Dirk Benedict never got along, but Hatch had been trying to put together a Battlestar Galactica revival before the reboot started. He had gotten some traction and soft-commits, then Dirk Benedict was about it in some trade rag, and said it was a terrible idea he was definitely not going to be involved, and that pretty much 86'd the revival (he didn't need to say he was going to do it, but a 'I dunno I'd have to see how it turns out'). I guess Hatch was still really pissed about that.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

just finished the wire and it was a good show. maybe a bit overrated, but still good. i would rank the season as

3>1>4>5>2

Season one
show starts off with the cops setting up a wire taps to track one of the gangsters in Baltimore city. the show is a bit of a time capsule with its early 2000 ascetics and you can see that in the behavior of the characters. its 2002, 9/11 is just a lite over a year ago, patriotisms is still high and the war on terror is in full swing. however beacuse of it, the city of Baltimore has left its city and people neglected. crime is on a all time high, drug use has gone up, people live in complete poverty and more and more people are made homeless beacuse all the cities funding being used oversees. setting up the characters and seeing all the politics that's going on not just on the police side, but the gangster side was intriguing

season two
its the "you either like it, or you hate it" kind of season new characters get introduced, new criminals that needs to be captured and a new setting. most of the season takes place at a harbor and you get to see the decay of Baltimore from the perspective of people trying to make an honest living but gets fucked with both criminals and the law. Baltimore was a city of industries once that had alot of work and prospects where got your first job at a car manufacture or the harbor. you work that job for the rest of your life and your offspring is suppose to follow your footstep. however as we all know, all those industries got sold off and moved oversees and now the old worker either works for pennies or not at all, now the offspring has nothing to look forward to unless they have enough money to get into collage. it was an interesting take but i missed the characters from the old season

season three
my favorite beacuse of Hamsterdam and the police chief saying "fuck it, drugs are legal now" just to prove a point. the criminals from season one returns with some new characters. overall a good season with alot happening.

season four
like this season more then a thought. now we get to see how the school system is in Baltimore and of course, its a shit show. the kids grew on me more then i thought they would and the new crime boss was not half bad either. its this season where they really get into the politics, all the numbers and bullshit it entails.

Season five
i dunno about this season. it just feels slow too me. more politics and how everyone has dirt on everyone and nothing gets done until they forced to. if you hate journalists, then you will like this season since they will shit on those guys regularly. i liked you got to see the kids from the last season and how they ended up but man, it was hard watching Dougie fall. that kid deserved better. overall the final episode was a banger and a good way to end the show.

 

[Ghostse]

Also didn’t realize they had three movies of it continuing the show after it ended.

I watched the first one, and its pretty much just an extended episode of Psych. So If you want more Psych ...
I need to get around to watching the other two.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I watched the first one, and its pretty much just an extended episode of Psych. So If you want more Psych ...
I need to get around to watching the other two.

That is what I would want out of a Psych movie, so good to know.

I’m in the middle of season 6 now, so I’ll have to check them out once I get through the rest of the series.

 

[Ensok]

Heroes, even though it got consistently more infuriating each volume.

The biggest problem was them never being able to settle on a path for Sylar from volume 3 on. He keeps going back and forth too much and keeps getting used and defeated by others in stupid situations. The Nathan/Sylar plotline in Volume 5 was horrible and resolved in a really terrible way. The show in general had far too many anti-climaxes and villains stopped either stupidly easy or completely off-screen.

Show was raped by writer strike sure but that isn't an excuse for everything from Volume 3 on. That said, Volume 1 was a true experience and it was one of my favorite things to watch on tv and look forward to while it was coming out.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

I know it sounds generic as fuck, but Breaking Bad.

 

[Just_Somebody]

For some lesser known, lighthearted science fiction, two shows come to mind.

Eureka and Warehouse 13.

Eureka is set in a town that's basically a research lab for advanced technologies. The formula is everyman Sheriff Carter needing to resolve whatever science hijinks happening in that episode. Usually two or more projects interacting....poorly, leading to a potential disaster. One comes to mind is a cloud guy making, well, clouds, by adding extra hydrogen into the atmosphere, interacting with a middle schooler's solar system model (which had a miniature sun), which became uncontrollably big as it fed on the excess hydrogen.

Warehouse 13 is basically the warehouse from the end of Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. A small team finds artifacts imbued with powers from major historical events, like the binoculars from the pilot of the Enola Gay, which can basically vaporize a person, leaving only a scorched outline of their shadow, and secures it safely in a giant warehouse in North Dakota.

Good humor in both shows, and entertaining characters. If you want something less serious, it's a good choice.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

it's why it never worked for me, same as psych.

something like leverage or burn notice was always more interesting to me.

I forgot about Burn Notice. It was actually entertaining and a nice evolution of the 80s cop show formula.

 

[nosemouth]

Better of Ted was better then it had any right to be. I still remember the episode where the higher ups replaced everything in the build with motion sensors......that couldn't detect black people. So they hired a bunch of white people to follow the black employee's around.

The line "I love my white guy" still slays me.

"Manual Water Fountain (for blacks)"

 

[MirrorNoir]

Lost was a pretty big deal. It was the one show I was heavily invested in during the switch to HD.
Miscellaneous for the era, it's also when my local cable company started expanding their service and loosened their death grip on movie channels by walling them behind premium cable packages. Mainly, AMC. Apparently it was a really great time to be watching that channel, and I didn't mind them censoring content at all due to the novelty of having a channel that was mostly movies and some well edited video packages during the ad breaks. Of course, it's completely unwatchable now.

Where the hell did you live in the 2000s and who the hell was your cable company?

AMC was pretty much on pretty much every basic bitch cable tier by the mid-90s and by the time they dropped the classics part and became nothing but modern goyslop shit and added commercials/running censored cuts of films after previously running films uncut/uncensored and shit, TCM on the other hand was only available on higher end cable packages until the early 2000s, when it started showing up in certain markets on certain companies basic packages.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Better of Ted was better then it had any right to be. I still remember the episode where the higher ups replaced everything in the build with motion sensors......that couldn't detect black people. So they hired a bunch of white people to follow the black employee's around.

The line "I love my white guy" still slays me.

Andy Richter CTU was better.

And shut the fuck up, MirrorNoir.

You're a faggot and no one cares about your bullshit.

 

[MirrorNoir]

The Killing- Another good show that AMC dropped and Netflix picked up. Cast is excellent, writing is good with some blemishes. Its based on a Danish show but set in Seattle and you have some issues where they clearly cribbed the plot from the Danes but it doesn't really work because its America, but its minor. The Final Season is a little bit of a mess, and lots of performances are phoned in, but it at least got a intentional ending even if it kinda kills some of the themes. Mainly they sort of ruin the vibe the two detectives have, where in a rare case of a male & female pairing they AREN'T romantically interested in each other, by implying a relationship

Shocked to see someone like the Killing, since it was a huge fucking flop and one of the first major flops for AMC.

The show's first season was highly reworked from the original Danish version with a bunch of god-awful filler and they explicitly lied to the public about wrapping up the plot at the end of the season, having it end with a bullshit cliffhanger and forcing people to sit through another season just to find out who the murderer was (meaning more filler). It basically got the show canceled and the only reason it got resurrected on Netflix was due to Joel Kinnaman being under a long term contract and was getting movie offers from Hollywood (as he was the only thing on the show people liked) so the production company made a deal with Netflix to do two more seasons, purely to ring the last couple of sheckles out of Kinnaman's ass before he became a free agent.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

I begun to rewatch some old cop shows my mom likes and found Cold Case to be an interesting watch. Basically there's a female Philadelphia PD homicide detective that has to solve a bunch of murder cases that range from the 1950s to about 2003. It actually pretty difficult to determine who the killer is until the last moment and sometimes there is no killer. Another cool thing is the music which plays popular songs from the year the case originally took place in. That's why it's hard to find outside of cable channels since it would be plenty of work to determine who gets royalties and whatnot.

 

[Pokemon Conquistador]

I haven't watched a lot of TV since the 90s, but I did enjoy the Avatar: the Last Airbender series (not the Korra one,) and the Lord of the Rings movies (not the Hobbit ones.)

 

[Tor Lugosi]

Shocked to see someone like the Killing, since it was a huge fucking flop and one of the first major flops for AMC.

The show's first season was highly reworked from the original Danish version with a bunch of god-awful filler and they explicitly lied to the public about wrapping up the plot at the end of the season, having it end with a bullshit cliffhanger and forcing people to sit through another season just to find out who the murderer was (meaning more filler). It basically got the show canceled and the only reason it got resurrected on Netflix was due to Joel Kinnaman being under a long term contract and was getting movie offers from Hollywood (as he was the only thing on the show people liked) so the production company made a deal with Netflix to do two more seasons, purely to ring the last couple of sheckles out of Kinnaman's ass before he became a free agent.

Yeah, I'm always surprised when people call The Killing a good show. It's basically 'Red Herring: The Series' -- spend an episode setting up a new suspect, then the next episode rules him out, then the next episode sets up another suspect, and so on and so forth until finally the real killer is caught. Add in a bunch of needless filler about pointless side characters plus boring drama of the main cast's personal lives and you get The Killing.

Sure, red herrings are a big thing for mysteries but the way The Killing did it was incredibly linear and dull. I think it was the moody cinematography and the occasional "deep" (though actually stupid) conversations that tricked a lot of people into thinking it was an intelligent, dark show.

 

[Power Appreciator]

What if instead of using gay faggot pink laser guns or gay faggot laser swords you could just blast at the (((Goa'uld))) full auto with a P90? It's motherfucking STARGATE time faggot!!!